A Conversation with Don Gaetz, Former Florida Senate President
Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation organized to oversee the expenditure of 75 percent of all funds recovered by the Florida attorney general for economic damages to the state that resulted from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc., is required to administer the distribution of the funds to be used for the recovery, diversification, and enhancement of the eight Northwest Florida counties disproportionately affected by the oil spill. Those counties include Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, Gulf, Franklin and Wakulla.
Former Florida Senate President Don Gaetz now sits on the board he helped create in 2013 that will oversee the $1.5 billion from the BP oil spill settlement. Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran appointed Gaetz to the Triumph Gulf Coast board on June 30. During his time as Senate President, Gaetz sponsored the 2013 legislation that created Triumph Gulf Coast.
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